With its consistently high number of activities, from sports to clubs to elective classes, Campo has often played host to various field trips that take place across the year. While most occur every year, others are more sporadic, and some are more well-known. The spring semester of 2025 has brought a particularly significant amount of field trips to students’ busy schedules compared to previous years.
A yearly field trip included, for example, the San Francisco Chinatown trip on March 10 that Mandarin 4 Honors and Mandarin 5 AP students participated in. Senior Xiaofei Zhao, for whom it was her second year going, said, “The first thing we did, we arrived at the dragon gate, and we looked at the meaning of the words on the gate. You go around Chinatown looking for certain things [street signs, structures] for the main assignment; most of the trip was just being able to go around and look at Chinatown in further detail.” She added that later, the class had to compile their findings into a presentation. “The timing is good because it’s before APs, before April, where we have to prepare for testing,” Zhao observed.
Freshman Bailey Ehrenberger added her thoughts on the spring break Tijuana service trip that she and nearly 120 students attended, with about 30 adults present as well. “We traveled down to Tijuana to basically build houses,” she stated. “We built for about eight hours, but it’s really a social experience with everyone. At night, we’d hang out together for a couple of hours, sing a bunch of songs, and see God in a new light.” She saw the trip as a positive for everyone, noting that it was “eye-opening” and allowed her to bond a lot with the other students who attended. Ehrenberger saw the trip as another example of the opportunities found in traveling during the spring semester to have new experiences.
On March 28, German classes also embarked on their annual trip to a German film festival in San Francisco. Sophomore Rachel Levin, who spoke positively about the movies that the German students watched, thought of the trip as “a way to learn more about German culture…you get to hear a lot of German being spoken, so it’s good practice for listening comprehension.” Levin agreed with Zhao’s perspective about the timing of the field trips as well, noting that “People start getting stressed out because it’s the spring, and teachers are ramping up with APs…this field trip was a nice way to decompress.”
